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| mo_flixx |
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| I'm waiting for the PSYCHO SPOILER to be revealed.... |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:17 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: I'm waiting for the PSYCHO SPOILER to be revealed....
Mo--I posted it in "WHITE." You have to highlight what comes under my SPOILER ALERT. Understand? Or misunderstand (as per your typo in BTC)? |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:20 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: mo_flixx wrote: I'm waiting for the PSYCHO SPOILER to be revealed....
Mo--I posted it in "WHITE." You have to highlight what comes under my SPOILER ALERT. Understand? Or misunderstand (as per your typo in BTC)?
I just tried to get it to work. No luck, sorry. Can you send me a PM? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:31 pm |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:36 pm |
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| How about Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy? It was done up twice. Once by Josef von Sternberg in 1931 and secondly by George Stevens in 1951 as A Place in the Sun. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:53 pm |
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| East of Eden was far from a great movie, but it was far far better than the book. The odd thing about it was that the characters in the movie were most very different from the characters in the book, and better. I think Steinbeck worked on the screenplay. I suspect he had sombered up and wisely changed some things. The theme of the bible passage that threads its way incessantly throught the novel, isn't even mentioned in the movie. Though I think maybe old man Trask might have read it in one of his dinner time bible readings. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:54 pm |
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| Sobered up, sombered up, what the hell's the difference? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:21 pm |
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| So, mo, did you get my PM? |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:27 pm |
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| I found the Bloch quote hilarious. Are you sure he wasn't going for gallows humor, there? |
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| bocce |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:29 pm |
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mo_flixx wrote: tirebiter wrote: I looked over a list of books I've read, and I was surprised at how few there were that turned out better onscreen. Here's what I came up with...
96.7 of the time, the book's better than the movie.
How about "The French Lieutenant's Woman?" "A Clockwork Orange?"
mo...
you've got to be kidding. both fowles (FLW) and burgess (ACO) are outstanding writers. several of fowles novels have been filmed and i've never considered ONE to be superior to the book.
and as far as CLOCKWORK ORANGE is concerned, the book was a linguistic triumph almost completely lost in kubrick's adaptation. both films are good in their own way, but hardly superior to the novels.
on the other hand ALL the clancy (HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, PATRIOT GAMES, etc.) and grisham (THE FIRM, PELICAN BRIEF, etc.) adaptations are better on film simply because neither can write worth a damn. |
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| bocce |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:31 pm |
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| a popular (and pretty good) writer who DOES translate well in his filmed adaptations is elmore leonard. |
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| bocce |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:48 pm |
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to me the pentultimate screen adaptation was TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD...
i've never heard anyone complain about the film either over or underwhelming the novel. it was almost perfect. |
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| dlhavard |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:32 pm |
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Quote: to me the pentultimate screen adaptation was TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD...
Two great minds Bocce. That's your "assignment" for the weekend (besides it's on TCM on Saturday). 
Found some great stuff about the movie/book that I want to share. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:43 pm |
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bocce wrote: a popular (and pretty good) writer who DOES translate well in his filmed adaptations is elmore leonard. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:44 pm |
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dlhavard wrote: Quote: to me the pentultimate screen adaptation was TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD...
Two great minds Bocce. That's your "assignment" for the weekend (besides it's on TCM on Saturday).
Found some great stuff about the movie/book that I want to share.
Hooray!
Billy - Loved your spoiler.
Joe - What can I say? Gallow's humor indeed. |
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